Clementa Quotes & Sayings

Loving God is never separate from loving our brothers and sisters. It's always the same. — Clementa C. Pinckney

Clem (Clementa Pinckney) understood that justice grows out of recognition of ourselves, in each other. — Barack Obama

We have a legacy to uphold: the people who died so that we could have the right to vote; the people who sacrificed so that we would one day realize the dream of a black president. — Clementa C. Pinckney

I don't like to put outrageous titles on young guys' heads, but he could be one of the best at that position. All it's going to take are longevity and health. If he has those two things by his side, he'll be one of the best. — Nate Burleson

I see everything I do as an extension of the ministry. It's all about service. — Clementa C. Pinckney

And I have lifetimes inside me, I'm the girl you see standing here,and I'm a cranky old professor, and I'm a peace-loving man, and I'm a killer and a maid and a king and a peasant. I am a dozen more. You think you're old? You got nothing on me. — Derek Landy

As long as one person reads the bullshit I put on paper, and likes it, i'll keep writing. — Benjamin Bayani

Ribofunk indicates a focus on biology as the upcoming big science in the way that physics was for the last 50 or 100 years. If you look for a biological thread throughout science fiction, you can find it, but it's a very small percentage of the total. That's been changing in the last few years. — Paul Di Filippo

What this denomination stands for is, really, is the universal vision of all people being treated fairly under the law as God sees us in His sight. — Clementa C. Pinckney

In Brazil we have a comic strip in the newspaper. That one also attracts a different kind of followers. — Gabriel Ba

We don't see ourselves as just a place where we come to worship but as a beacon and a bearer of the culture and a bearer of what makes us a people. But I like to say that this is not necessarily unique to us. It is really what America is all about. — Clementa C. Pinckney

I always felt God had called me to serve within the church because of what the church stands for. This has always been home. — Clementa C. Pinckney

One of those gated communities where there's one token African-American couple and four token Jewish couples. Children and vegetarians are not allowed. Residents must vote Republican and own small dogs with rhinestone collars, stupid eyes, and names that end in i. Taffi is good, Cassi is better, and something like Rififi is the total shit. — Stephen King

This is Robin Hood in reverse. These tax cap proposals favor those with the most expensive properties. We are spreading the taxes to those with some of the least expensive property. — Clementa C. Pinckney

The air was full of their scent, sweet and heady, and it seemed to me as though their very essence had mingled with the running waters of the stream, and become one with the falling rain and the dank rich moss beneath our fee — Daphne Du Maurier

God is no respecter of persons or causes. — Clementa C. Pinckney

Our calling is not just within the walls of the congregation, but we are part of the life and community in which our condition resides. — Clementa C. Pinckney

Our people expect the best of us. They send us to take care of the people's business, and those of us who take hold of that responsibility understand that's what it's really about. — Clementa C. Pinckney

My bad, Z. I shouldn't have gone bitch on you. We cool? — Alexandra Bracken

I am breathing. In dreams, we never bother to breathe. — David Levithan

Body cameras help to record what happens. It may not be the golden ticket, the golden egg, the end-all-fix-all, but it helps to paint a picture of what happens during a police stop. — Clementa C. Pinckney

I hope I can live up to the faith that has been put in me to do a good job. — Clementa C. Pinckney

In the community, in the African-American community, one person ought to say something, and that is the minister. The minister is paid by the people. He doesn't work for a big company. He doesn't represent a particular special interest. — Clementa C. Pinckney

I'm glad they're taking a step back. A lot of this is happening so quickly that people can't keep up with it. — Clementa C. Pinckney

It is my hope that as South Carolina senators, that we will stand up for what is best and good about our state. — Clementa C. Pinckney

Could we not argue that America is about freedom, whether we live it out or not, but it really is about freedom, equality and the pursuit of happiness. And that's what church is all about. — Clementa C. Pinckney

I would never have turned pro training like an average bodybuilder. There is no substitute for intensity. — Branch Warren